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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
The bubble bursts when Apple announces it's doing good enough (private/secure) LLMs on device. At that point the capex on cloud infra starts to come into question and the dominos start to fall...
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35% of buyers less likely to buy car with FSD(cnbc.com)
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
The Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report for August, published by political consulting firm Slingshot Strategies, polled 8,000 Americans. Only 14% of those surveyed said FSD would make them more likely to buy a Tesla, while 35% said the tec
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
But it is broken. There is a shortage of every type of trades worker. Sure it's been great for existing trade folks because there are plenty of jobs and the pay is great more demand than supply. But the lack of supply has meant that it
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
Fossil Fuels. I read 70% of it is wasted in extraction, processing, transportation and inefficient use. This despite ~100 years of working on the problem.
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
A couple of years ago, some smart kids created fractal. Every week (or maybe 2) you got matched with another exec. It was super high quality and I got a lot of value from it. I met someone I hired, someone who eventually hired me and anothe
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
I wonder if the callousness is a consequence of generational experiences. Hundreds of years ago, Europe was once like the US. It had hype manias (tulips). But perhaps they had enough of them where they stopped believing. The US is much youn
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
A landline for a 3 year old to communicate with her friends. lol
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
The local public elementary school blocked all chat programs on student chromebooks. The 3rd graders figured out that they could chat with another in a shared google doc. They had thousands of pages of chat before the teacher finally put an
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
I've managed thousands of people. In my experience people didn't feel guilt about taking PTO, they felt FOMO because they didn't feel secure in their position or at the company. They felt something would come up or someone wo
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
A digital strike by all employees for a week to get a collective bargaining agreement in place to show companies just how far AI has to go as a replacement would be powerful.
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
For the most part, I'm indifferent to layoffs. Companies over hire and then course correct. It's part of the game. But for MSFT, it rubs me the wrong way. In the past 5 years, their stock has soared (150% on stock and doubled in v
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
For the most part, I'm indifferent to layoffs. Companies over hire and then course correct. It's part of the game. But for MSFT, it rubs me the wrong way. In the past 5 years, their stock has soared (150% on stock and doubled in v
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
I've gone down this rabbit hole with customers as a PM still working in the space. Here is what I've learned. The past decade of devices (hololens, realwear, google glass, vuzix, etc) were some combination of way too heavy, expens
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
No way FB is offering $100M. But it's a good tactic from Sama to set the expectation of value to leave
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
I went to this launch. I was excited about palmOS and intrigued when HP bought them. HP had a massive enterprise PC business. At the time custom apps were all the rage and Apple was killing it. But not in the enterprise. Apple didn't c
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
The apocalypse will presumably come when communication + coordination meetings are no longer necessary. People are really inefficient at this. We have to all get on a synchronous meeting and wait 20 minutes to share our 90 second update. We
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
Money buys you access to insane physical places and people. But all the digital places that take your attention are the same.
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
I just got a courtesy notice from the roll-out of these speeding cameras in San Francisco. This after getting 0 speeding tickets in SF for the last 15 years. It's admittedly had a chilling effect on my driving. It's hard for me to
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
Don't worry, there is always another bubble on the horizon
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
Ultimately (and sadly) yes. While I never habitually or intentionally attended meetings to just look busy, I did work on something I knew had a long shot of creating value for the business. I worked on 0-1 products that if the company was m
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
True! I golfed with the president of the division on a Friday (during work) and we got to the root of this. Companies would rather burn money on headcount (counted as R&D) than show profits and pay the govt taxes. When you have 70%+ mar
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
Imagine a soldier operating an andruil drone with a heads up display powered by Meta getting intel on a target that includes their instagram with family pics and then being ordered to fire
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
I worked at two different $10B+ market cap companies during ZIRP. I recall in most meetings over half of the knowledge workers attending were superfluous. I mean, we hired someone on my team to attend cross functional meetings because our c
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
CEO's typically make decisions when there isn't enough data to support the obvious direction. In this way, they are anti-pattern finders that rely on gut or some anecdotal experience. They are most often wrong, but when they are r
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
I did a bunch of solo-traveling in the late 90s and early 00s. It was a magic time. No smartphones. Internet was still niche. You take a train. Find a hostel. Meet some folks. Party together. Check out some sites then go on to the next city
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by idkwhattocallme 1y ago
billions of people visit their feed hourly. I think it's fair to say that [some] people like their feed algorithm. edited to add [some]
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by idkwhattocallme 2y ago
RTO full time just isn't possible for my family and I suspect I'm not alone. It has nothing to do with productivity. It's just the economics of childcare don't work. We live in SF both work tech jobs. We make above media
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by idkwhattocallme 2y ago
I read this annually, typically in a day, usually when I'm feeling lost. For me it distills the human experience into a simply story that helps me find meaning for where I am in my own journey.
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by idkwhattocallme 2y ago
I like the AI notetakers. I'm not worried about being taken out of context because if I am, there is a recording of the whole thing I can point to. As far as etiquette, yah it was awkward at first, but so was doing video calls

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